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Julie's Official Flying Kit
Items that flew in space with Julie Payette or Julie's "Luggage"
What do Benny the Clown, the 15th Wing - Canadian Forces Base - Moose Jaw, and the Year of Older Persons have in common?
The answer is that they all participated symbolically to Space Shuttle mission STS-96 with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette.
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Julie Payette have chosen to support and recognize various groups and organizations for their work and collaboration by taking a memento, which has a symbolic meaning to the particular group or organization, along on the space mission. Upon her return, Julie Payette met with these groups and organizations and handed back the different items, marked as "officially flown to space" to be placed on public display.
As a crew member aboard Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-96), our CSA astronaut Julie Payette was allowed to fly a limited number of mementos for organizations representing the aerospace industry, the academic community and the counterpart institutions of friendly foreign countries of her choice. Some of these mementos were sealed in a container approximately 2 cubic feet in size. These items were flown as a courtesy - not as an entitlement - and they were not used for economic gain. Their purpose was to serve as awards and commendations or to be preserved in museums or archives.
Le Cirque du Soleil - RED CLOWN NOSE
As strange as it sounds, the CSA and Julie Payette had chosen to add something in her "suitcase" that would put sparkles into the eyes of young and
old around the world: a red clown nose. The red nose of clown Benny Legrand from the "Mystery Show" of Le Cirque du Soleil not only symbolizes
children’s dreams but also marks the international excellence of Canadian know-how in a field completely different from science and technology. The shows
of Le Cirque du Soleil are an international renowned success. With its sense of innovation, Le Cirque has managed to defeat gravity here on Earth...just like
Julie when she floated weightless among the stars.
http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/
15th Wing - Canadian Forces Base at Moose Jaw - PATCH
From Benny's nose to something of a different type that also defeats gravity. Julie Payette chose to recognize the Canadian Forces Base at Moose Jaw for its
excellence in pilot training. Julie and Bjarni Tryggvason received their training there and it proved determinant in helping them and other Canadian
astronauts integrate the NASA programs.
http://www.moosejaw.dnd.ca/
International Year of Older Persons - MEDALLION
The United Nations Organization declared 1999 "Year of Older Persons". A medallion will mark this special year. Under the theme
"Toward a Society of All Ages", Canada developed an action plan to coincide with the objectives of the International Space Station: to build a
society without boundaries led by international cooperation. Another thread linking the Space Program to the Year of the Older Persons is the research
conducted on osteoporosis aboard the ISS. This disease which affects the elderly leads to the deterioration and loss of bone mass, a condition similar
to the one astronauts may experience when they are exposed to a zero gravity environment for a long period of time. A number of medical experiments on the
aging processes, such as testing the astronauts’ bones, will be conducted. Every month a million people in the world turn 60.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/seniors-aines/iyop_wrapup/english/index.htm
Youth Science Foundation - LOGO
The mandate of the Youth Science Foundation is to relay the excitement of science to students and to encourage them to pursue studies in the field of
science and technology. This corresponds to the CSA mandate "To promote the peaceful use and development of space, to advance the knowledge of space
through science and to ensure that space science and technology provide social and economic benefits for Canadians". As the Foundation touches thousands
of children and adults across the country and worldwide, the CSA is proud to involve this institution in the STS-96 mission.
http://www.ysf.ca/
United World College - A COLLEGE LOGO
Even Nelson Mandela and Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan have a slight connection to the mission: they are respectively President of the United World
College International Council and President of the United World College. United World Colleges are international schools at one of which Julie Payette has
studied. The objective of the UWC is to promote international cooperation and understanding, which coincides with the objectives of the International Space
Station. The ISS is much more than a world-class laboratory floating in space, it is an international human experiment that teaches us how to learn and live
with our international partners in a non-terrestrial environment.
http://www.uwc.org/
Jam des neiges, representing 10,000 scouts
Snow jam PATCH embroidered for the Jamboree
Les Scouts du Québec invites Scouts from around the world to celebrate the first international winter JAMBOREE for youth from December 27, 1999 to
January 5, 2000 in Quebec City (Quebec, Canada). Centered around the themes of increasing awareness and concern for our global environment, of envisioning the
future and of embarking into the year 2000, Quebec Scouting wishes to celebrate in Scouting friendship the arrival of the third millennium.
EXPO 2000, Hanover (Germany) - MEDALLION
EXPO 2000 takes place in Hanover, Germany, from June 1st to October 31, 2000, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the reunification of Germany. The themes
relate to the complex relations between technology and nature. One of the principal objectives is to find fundamental values that respect nature through
technologies that liberate humanity rather than enslave it. This meets with the objectives pursued by the International Space Station and its partners. One of
the secondary theme is environment, an issue which the CSA and Julie Payette feel is important.
Canada featured a national pavilion at the World Exposition, along with 185 countries and 9 international organizations.
Queen's University
Queen's University Chancellor's Research Awards SILK FLAG
The researchers who receive the Queen’s University Chancellor Research Award are the next Newtons and Einsteins of our times. Once a year, the prize
is awarded to an individual whose research must be recognized. The Award consists of a little silk flag representing a handful of young researchers. The
flag's symbolic voyage to the stars illustrates the support researchers should receive and acknowledges their excellence.
http://www.queensu.ca
Ambulance Saint-Jean
900th YEAR COMMEMORATIVE PIN
Julie Payette is the official spokesperson of the 900th anniversary of Ambulance Saint-Jean. This organization, the most ancient charitable
organization in the world, has served the community for 900 years.
http://www.sja.ca/
Montreal Canadiens Hockey Club - LOGO
Although Julie Payette has not been able to sit in the stands and watch a
hockey game for a quite a while, she showed her love for our national sport - ice hockey, by taking the Club crest of the Montreal Canadiens with her into
space, a small memento of her home town's hockey team.
http://www.canadiens.com
Nunavut - New Territory - SMALL FLAG
On April 1st, the map of Canada has been transformed by a division of the
Northwest Territories. A new territory was created, called Nunavut, which means "our land" in Inuktitut, the Inuit's language. The creation of this
new territory is the result of an old dream for the Inuits and the beginning of a new era for Canada. The assembly in space of the International Space Station
is also the outcome of a dream for Canada and its partners, as well as the dawn of a new era.
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/
Northern Lights Centre
Town of Watson Lake (Yukon) - CREST
Observers of the sky have always been intrigued by the Auroras, a natural phenomena that sparked explanations from folklore to the scientific, until a
young scientist by the name of John H. Chapman, who would become the father of the Canadian Space Program, proposed a Canadian satellite that would explore
the ionosphere from space. Alouette-I would contribute to solving the mysteries of the Northern Lights and the radio disturbances associated with these auroral
outbursts. Space science had only begun. As a tribute to our space pioneers, a crest from the Northern Lights Centre flew with Julie Payette in the first
Space Shuttle mission ever to dock with the International Space Station. Julie Payette was the first Canadian to come on board ISS.
Over the last 40 years, from Alouette-I to the International Space Station, Canada has developed international leadership in niche areas such as robotics and
automation, environmental monitoring from space, atmospheric studies, and advanced satellite communications.
http://www.northernlightscentre.ca/
Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec
Order's Grand prize of excellence PIN
Julie Payette is a member of l'Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec.
http://www.oiq.qc.ca
Governor General of Canada
NEW MAP OF CANADA
http://www.gg.ca
Massey College - CREST
Massey College is the only independent college and the only college solely for graduates, both male and female, in the University of Toronto. The College is
interdisciplinary and is both a focus for graduate work and a congenial environment for the exchange of opinions and ideas. Its members work in various
branches of the Humanities, Sciences, and Professions, and come from all parts of Canada and around the world to form a diverse and welcoming community. In
addition Julie Payette received her Master of Applied Science (1990) from the University of Toronto and ran the Massey College student fund.
http://www.utoronto.ca/massey/
Skyhawks - Parachute Team - PATCH
They too "fly" through the clouds and seemingly defeat gravity at times - the Skyhawks. The aim of the Canadian Forces Parachute Team is to
increase public awareness of the Canadian Forces and specifically the Army through parachute demonstrations and displays.
http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/skyhawks/
